Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00747

The days after Christmas are usually ones where I do a lot of purchases because I ask for gift cards and I use Christmas money to get a lot of the things that I would like. This week some things arrived like the LEGO NES set, some Transformers Funko Pop! figures and I bought some new headphones. These are the Turtle Beach Stealth Gen 2 wireless headphones. The selling point for me is that these headphones can not only connect to my XBox wirelessly but to my cellphone via Bluetooth simultaneously. That means that when I am working from home and using my XBox I can make sure that I do not miss any calls coming in. Before I had to do this by wearing over the ear headphones and in ear Bluetooth ear buds. Not the greatest option but I made it work.

I also got these because I run the company switchboard on the weekends and the headset that I received from work was terrible. With a USB adapter I can connect the headset to my work computer and take calls using it and at the same time be connected to my own phone via Bluetooth. That is not that important overall but I can use Audible to listen to books while I wait for calls. I finished the book Armada by Ernest Cline tonight and it was great. then for the heck of it I checked Spotify to see if anyone had created a playlist of all the songs mentioned in the book. Someone had and then I checked to see if anyone made one for Ready Player One and Ready Player Two. They had and so I listened to those soundtracks when the book was finished.

The one thing is that there always needs to be something playing in order for them to stay on. Whether it is a game on the XBox or a song on the phone something has to keep the headset on. Shouldn’t be a huge problem and I’ll have to re-pair the headset to the work computer each week but still better than wearing two sets of headphones.